Insights on human evolution: An analysis of Alu insertion polymorphisms

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 603-611

  Terreros, Maria C ^a   Alfonso Sánchez, Miguel A ^b   Novick, Gabriel E ^a   Luis, Javier R ^c   Lacau, Harlette ^a   Lowery, Robert K ^a,d   Regueiro, Maria ^a   Herrera, Rene J ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry informative markers; Gene flow; Genetic structuring; Human evolution; Isolation by distance model; PAIs

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA;

ABORIGINE; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BENIN; CAMEROON; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DNA ISOLATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KENYA; NEOLITHIC; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AFRICA; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION SIZE; RWANDA; TAIWAN;

AFRICA; ALU ELEMENTS; ASIA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 70350443224     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2009.86     Document Type: Article

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